POLITICS, PUBLICS + DESIGN
Monday, September 10, 6:30 pm-9:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, GSAPP; Adi Shamir, Executive Director, Van Alen Institute; Rene Spitz, Chairman, International Design Forum (IFG), Ulm

THE POSSIBILITY OF (AN) ARCHITECTURE
Wednesday, September 12, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm

ENGINEERED TRANSPARENCY CONFERENCE: Keynote Lecture: Kazuyo Sejima, SANAA, Tokyo
Wednesday, September 26, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Registration required (www.arch.columbia.edu/engineeredtransparency)
Seating is limited - Simulcast provided

Conference Day 1 - Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Thursday, September 27, 9:30 am-6:00 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Registration required (www.arch.columbia.edu/engineeredtransparency)
Seating is limited - Simulcast provided

Confrence Day 2 - Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Friday, September 28, 9:30 am-6:00 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Registration required (www.arch.columbia.edu/engineeredtransparency)
Seating is limited - Simulcast provided

Debate: MILLION DOLLAR BLOCKS
Monday, October 1, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Hosted by Laura Kurgan, Spatial Information Design Lab, GSAPP and Eric Cadora, Director Justice Mapping Center.

Buell Evening Lecture - 50 Years of Recuperation: What is Living and What is Dead in the Situationist International
Wednesday, October 3, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
McKenzie Wark, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Eugene Lang College and of Sociology, the New School for Social Research

Debate: CUT ACION MICRO CUT
Monday, October 8, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
With: Stan Allen, School of Architecture, Princeton University; Preston Scott Cohen, GSD, Harvard University; Ed Keller, GSAPP; Jeffrey Kipnis, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University; Michael Webb, GSAPP. Moderated by Philip Parker, GSAPP

Lecture: WOMEN WITHOUT MEN
Wednesday, October 10, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Audtiroium, Avery Hall
Shirin Neshat, Visual Artist, New York


Debate + Book Launch: THE CITY UNPLUGGED
Monday, October 15, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Kadambari Baxi, Barnard + Reinhold Martin, GSAPP; authors of: Multi-National City (Actar, 2007); Daniela Fabricius (M.Arch 03), PennDesign/ Pratt, author of: 100% Favela (Actar, 2007); Kazys Varnelis, GSAPP; author of: Blue Monday (Actar, 2007) Moderated by: Michael Kubo, Actar

Debate + Opening: "Build in Uncertainty": Unpacking the Shadrach Woods Archive
Wednesday, October 17, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
With GSAPP Professors Kenneth Frampton, Reinhold Martin, Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Felicity D. Scott; Curators Brad Walters, Elsa Lam (Ph.D. Program, GSAPP)
Followed by the exhibition opening in the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall

Debate: The Enlightened Developer?
Monday, October 22, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
An exploration of the cutting edge where development meets design.
Organized in collaboration with The Real Estate Development Program, GSAPP

Young Alumni Lecture: PITCH BLACK
Wednesday, October 24, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Hernan Diaz Alonso (AAD 99)
Xefirot, Los Angeles

Urban Design Debate: (New) Model Cities: Designing in Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange and Red
Monday, October 29, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
A discussion of forces re-shaping waterfronts
Amanda M. Burden (UP 92), Director, Department of City Planning/ Chair, City Planning Commission, NYC; Christopher Glaisek, VP, Planning and Design, Waterfront Toronto; with other leading designers and practitioners
Moderated by Richard Plunz, GSAPP

SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE: The End of the Colored Cucumbers
Wednesday, October 31, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Santiago Cirugeda
Architect/ Activist, Seville

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. PRIVATE RETREATS: David Adjaye
Wednesday, November 7, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates, London

Discussion + Exhibition Opening: Vanishing Point
Thursday, November 8, 12:30 pm-2:00 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Michael Meredith, MOS, Cambridge/New Haven
Hosted by Mark Wasiuta, Director of Exhibitions, GSAPP

Lecture: Part I - Architecture's Desire: Interpreting the 1970s Neo-Avant-Garde
Monday, November 12, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory
Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Lecture: Part II - Architecture's Desire: Interpreting the 1970s Neo-Avant-Garde
Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
K. Michael Hays
Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory
Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Lecture: Storm Clouds of the Nineteenth Century: Weather, Capital, Architecture
Wednesday, November 14, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Arindam Dutta, Associate Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT

Screening + Debate: Growing up with Architects
Monday, November 26, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
A discussion with Nathanial Kahn, Two-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker of My Architect and Two Hands; James Venturi, Producer and Director of the film Learning from Bob and Denise
Moderated by: Enrique Walker, GSAPP

Lecture: WINY MAAS
Wednesday, November 28, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Winy Maas, MVRDV, Rotterdam